In April this year, French President Francois Hollande declared that “genocide” was the only word that could appropriately characterize the events of 1915; the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations passed a resolution affirming the historical reality of the Armenian Genocide; Australia’s newly appointed Human Rights Commissioner condemned the perpetrators of the Armenian Genocide; Members of the European Parliament declared that the attacks on Kessab were reminiscent of the historic deportation and massacre of Armenians; and the American Jewish Committee urged Turkey to address the Armenian Genocide. These were some of the political developments that marked the commemoration of the Armenian Genocide this year.
The shift in the media’s positioning toward Armenian Genocide recognition, however, was more significant than the political affirmations. Al Jazeera noted that Turkey has lost the battle of truth on the Armenian Genocide; CNN denounced Obama’s broken promise to use “the G word”; and Al Monitor ran the story of one popular Turkish political commentator who rejected years of denial to accept the Turkish state’s responsibility in the Armenian Genocide. Going even further, the Jerusalem Post and other news outlets criticized Erdogan for referring to the “shared pain” of Armenians and Turks in his first ever official statement on the occasion of the April 24 commemoration.
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Nothing should be off the table sounds more like a bombing campaign particularly from the US. While I empathize with your list, it looks too farfetched bordering on flights of fancy and more of a wishful thinking.
In the real world this would not happen, so we should perhaps look for something more realistic ?
What Mr. Meguerditchian is advancing is void of diplomatic language. Such ‘leaders’ should not pronounce so much vulnerable details, not to mention naked details. We first have to graduate as Ph.D candidates and have post doctoral experience of at least fifteen years in politics and diplomacy and to learn how to filter what can and what should be said, what not to say and what should be left to be understood without nudity. Even Hitler and Napoleon lost their battles because these have been the only two historic bulls who have lost their battles and have been humiliated because they declared their plans openly ahead of performing them. Not every one is qualified to utter unbalanced statements. Not even the Patriarch for obvious reasons. Let real diplomats talk. You are not the judge of diplomats, nor for that reason anyone else in our community, unless he presents his credentials publicly to speak up in the name of Armenians or even human beings. Not even UN, crammed with so-called diplomats, is true to its mission for which we can fill encyclopedias entitled UN failures after WWII just as the failures of the League of Nations of WWI.